This is nothing new. A lot of them are here unaccompanied, shoved over the border or smuggled in. Parents are risking their lives and their children to cross. I think the UN should step in and help those countries so the people can stay!

I wonder, where was the outrage when this was happening with the three previous administrations ? Oh ya it was ok then because the media was on the side of the government then . Bit now with a outsider sitting in , the whole establishment is showing us these terrible things trying to make us hate Trump . It's a game, a show, but unfortunately people's lives are being affected and ruined by it . This whole mess is the Clinton's, the Obama's and the Bush's faults and every politician that turned a blind eye too it .

There are five American embassies in Mexico. Those who want to immigrate can do it the right way: go to an embassy, submit paper work (including proof of persecution), submit security background checks, submit birth certificates to show the relationships between each family member, etc. Millions of potential immigrants and refugees are lined up at American embassies around the world. Before they can enter the US, they have to be processed, and it takes a lot of time....sometimes months and years.

Is it ok to create a backlog where immigrants and refugees from different parts of the world--who are trying to come in LEGALLY--have to wait even longer while border jumpers get to skip the process by showing up at the border uninvited?

It's not fair. Just because Mexico shares a border with the US does not mean that illegal border crossers (with kids who may or may not be their own) get to jump the queue while a longer line waits patiently at various US embassies worldwide.

You're rewarding illegal border crossers and punishing the legal immigrants.

This is a really reactively emotional post and I'd encourage you to consider the outlying and underlying factors to this before you decide that what is being done is "inhumane" or "indecent". I live close to the border here in Texas, and I'm a father. I'm not unsympathetic to what's happening, but I'm not excusing what they're doing.

It's a little strange to me that your introduction to a society is by breaking its laws and that there's a portion of that society that thinks that doing so is the high road.

That is processing 128 per day, no weekends or holidays off. Finding some of the parents can't be easy, considering where they come from, and the fact that many are being kidnapped and/or trafficked. If we didn't make it so attractive, they wouldn't come. Ultimately, parents who bring their children and get access to the US should not complain about anything IMHO

Disagree.

but tell you what, since you value your citizenship so lightly that you're willing to hand it to anyone who defies the law crosses into the country without so much as a "May I?" - give it to me. you apparently don't deserve it and i'd take a whole lot more care of it than you

No what is "appalling" is the fact that those supposed parents dragged those kids hundreds of miles to illegally enter a foriegn country. I feel absolutely no pity for them. We have our own to be concerned with here. If they want to go through the LEGAL immigration process I fully welcome them, otherwise I do not care. It is not our problem.

I started i group to draw awareness to this problem and the fact it is very real and a crisis at the border as well as other thing's. This is not new but doing it. Knowingly is a worst problem then you may think.

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